October 7 2017: Google  has honoured  Hijndustani classical singer Begum Akhtar on her 103rrd birth anniversary today.
Akhtari Bai Faizabadi, also known as Begum Akhtar (7 October 1914 – 30 October 1974), was a well known Indian singer of Ghazal, Dadra, and Thumri genres of Hindustani classical music.|
She received the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for vocal music, and was awarded Padma Shri and Padma
|She died on 30 October 1974 soon afer a peformance in Ahmedabad